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- From: hermit@cats.UCSC.EDU (William R. Ward)
- Newsgroups: sci.environment,ba.transportation
- Subject: Re: Oppose Signal Synchronization Projects!
- Date: 25 Jan 93 02:03:33
- Organization: Computing and Telecommunications Services, UCSC
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- In-reply-to: jordan@IMSI.COM's message of 21 Jan 93 15:26:04 GMT
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- In article <6094@bacon.IMSI.COM>, jordan@IMSI.COM (Jordan Hayes) writes:
- ) Joe Buck <jbuck@forney.berkeley.edu> writes:
- )) I think it's better to design things so that the main bicycle
- )) through-routes aren't the same as the main auto through-routes,
- )) so you can time different streets differently.
-
- ) An excellent point. But, even with well-designed bike routes, you
- ) *still* see lots of ("too damn many") bicycles on College Avenue in
- ) Berkeley during rush hour for instance. There's a great bike route
- ) system in the East Bay (particularly Berkeley-Oakland) and there's just
- ) no excuse for seeing bikes on a street not designed for it.
-
- Well, it is possible that the bicyclists in question are accustomed to
- traveling the route in a car or bus, and so follow the route on their
- bike that they know from their car. Or that the alternate route would
- take longer because of geographic distances; I'm not familiar with the
- area in question, however.
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